| 18
November, 2009
New
Collaboration: Advance Family Planning
Project (AFP) launched
Kampala, Uganda —
The
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health, the David and Lucile
Packard Foundation, USAID and the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
announced on 18 November at the ICFP
conference a new three-year, $12 million
project to advance reproductive health
and family planning efforts in regions
with the greatest need. The project,
Advance Family Planning, will focus
on sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
“If we are serious about achieving
the health component of the Millennium
Development Goals,” said Jose
Rimon, of the Gates Foundation, “we
need to reinvest in and revitalize
family planning and reproductive health.
… This project can succeed only
if the southern countries [of Africa]
are united in owning the issues themselves”.
Duff Gillespie, a professor at the
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health, said, “The people
who will really do the work and make
it a success are individual champions
in the countries they’re working
in. We see our role as facilitating.
We want to identify local champions
and help them.”
The Executive Director of PPD together
with the Regional Director of the
PPD ARO participated in a briefing
of stakeholders for the AFP project
held on 19th November in Kampala.
The AFP project is evidence based
effort to advocate for greater commitment,
ownership and partnership to promote
family planning in the developing
countries and has a strong component
of South- South Cooperation a vehicle
to achieve its aim. PPD is in unique
position as an intergovernmental organization
to promote South–South Cooperation
in the field of Reproductive Health,
Population and Development. One of
the key partners of the AFP project
is PPD and Executive Director of PPD
stated that “PPD is proud to
be associated with the project and
intended to raise the voice of the
South heard in the promotion of Reproductive
Health and Family Planning in developing
country.”
For more information about the project
announcement:
http://www.jhsph.edu/publichealthnews/press_releases
/2009/klag_family_planning.html
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